Yeagertown is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,002 people and just one neighborhood, Yeagertown is the 831st largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Yeagertown, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.48% of Yeagertown’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Yeagertown is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Yeagertown who work in office and administrative support (28.10%), sales jobs (9.43%), and maintenance occupations (6.65%).
A relatively large number of people in Yeagertown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.27% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Yeagertown has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Yeagertown has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Yeagertown than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Yeagertown may be for you.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 12.47 minutes getting to work every day.
Yeagertown is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Yeagertown ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.11% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Yeagertown in 2022 was $33,333, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,332 for a family of four.
The people who call Yeagertown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yeagertown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Yeagertown include German, Irish, Norwegian, Italian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Yeagertown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Yeagertown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 63.3% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Yeagertown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.4%), and 16.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Yeagertown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report English roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (63.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (14.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.